Searchable bibliographical database of journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada, 1990- (Before 1990 use this bibliography in paper format.)

Aggregation of searchable full text of articles in nearly 1000 humanities and social science journals. Most of the material is in languages of the region, but there is also some in English. Look over list of periodicals before you start to search. Then search in language of material you expect to retrieve. It is also searchable using Google Scholar.

Translated summaries of well-selected articles from the Soviet, post-Soviet, and now Russian press. Search engine here does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to occur in articles you retrieve. (For Russian names, be sure to read “A Special Note on Transliteration in The Current Digest” on the front page.) Covers 1949-

Full text of thousands of declassified U.S. documents that led to policy decisions. Includes collection “The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991”: documents from Director of Central Intelligence, National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and others.

Several hundred full-text Russian (mostly), Baltic and NIS newspapers, newswires, magazines, scholarly journals and government publications. Language is predominantly Russian, but if you search in English, you will retrieve material in English. Dates of coverage vary; most start in 1990s. (Search engine here does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to occur in articles you retrieve.)

From Law Library of Congress. See particularly the link Nations of the World. Constitutions, legislation, laws, other fairly current government documents. Material linked to is typically in language(s) of country and/or English. Some countries have only limited material online.

Index, abstracts and some full text of thousands of sources, some back to 1980s. Its particular strength for our purposes is news. Includes BBC monitoring of major international news sources. (It has legal and business databases as well.)

Find articles and dissertations in Russian or Ukrainian

This aggregation of nearly 1000 full-text journals from the region includes more than a dozen Russian-language ones from Russia. See them listed in the Periodicals list on the site. Search them in Russian, in Cyrillic.

Several hundred full-text Russian (mostly), Baltic and NIS newspapers, newswires, magazines, scholarly journals and government publications. Language is predominantly Russian, but there is also material in English and Ukrainian. Click on any of the records for individual parts in order to access the whole set of databases. Search engine does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to appear in an article.

Huge collection of digitized texts, from Gorky Institute of World Literature and Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications. “A repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it.”

Ukrainian general newspaper index. Until breakup of Soviet Union, Ukrainian articles were also included in Soviet Letopis’ gazetnykh statei, although Ukrainian index may be more comprehensive. 2002- available online as part of East View Universal Databases.

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Provides access to catalog of Russian dissertations held by the Russian State Library. Collection includes dissertations in all fields except medicine and pharmacy. Covers 2004- with some earlier ones.

Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Look here especially if a book or journal was published before 1923. Such material is out of copyright in the US, meaning you could have access to the full text online.

Check here to see if a library in North America has it. If you find a record for it, click on the holdings link. Note if Berkeley has it. If Berkeley does not, copy the Accession Number from the bottom of the record. Put "WorldCat" and the Accession Number into the interlibrary borrowing form.

From Berlin State Library, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Interface, instructions and description in German, Russian or English, although German version is most complete. Large, sophisticated database with a variety of ways to retrieve information. All social sciences and humanities subjects, but emphasis is on languages and literatures of the region.

From a partnership of several libraries & research institutes in Germany and beyond, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Interface, instructions and description in German, Russian or English. Large, sophisticated database covering social sciences and humanities subjects, with emphasis on history and social sciences.

This was a large, well-organized site created by Eric Herron while he was at the University of Kansas. Although the 2012 version on the Web Archive's WayBack Machine is now a bit out-of-date, it still includes many valid links to government offices, NGOs, institutes, news sources, political parties, etc.